Well, I’m off tomorrow morning to San Diego for Microsoft TechEd San Diego May 2004 tomorrow to meet with some vendors and partners, and to say hello to old friends and new. San Diego is one of my favorite cities in the world, so I’m sure I’ll have a great time just being there. However, I …
An honest history of Xtras, plus a glimpse of what’s to come
This past March my company Xtras, Inc. had its ten (10) year birthday. We’ve come to a crossroads of sorts and I thought it would be a good time to document those past ten years, and provide a glimpse of our future. I’ll do my best to describe things as I remember them, but I’ll …
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FREE XDN Professional for .NET Bloggers, Redux
We’re halfway through the month so its time for me to re-post the offer to get a FREE XDN Professional if you are a .NET Bloggers, in case you missed it the first time. You can click here to learn how to get your FREE XDN Professional membership. For those who don’t know about XDN it stands for …
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What information do you need when you consider purchasing a component?
UPDATE (2006-May-18): I am no longer running Xtras.Net As many of you know, my company produces a printed catalog called Xtras.Net which we subtitle Your Source for Quality .NET Tools. However, we are revising the design for the next printing, and also adding features to our website to coordinate with some of the changes. For …
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Long awaited help for PInvokers
A ton of people have already pointed to Adam Nathan’s PInvoke Visual Studio Add-in and related wiki site PINVOKE.NET, but it is very cool and I wanted to add to my lists of free tools and favorites.
I want “My” Classes. Now!
I blogged about the "My" classes here, and also video interviewed Joe Binder about the "My" classes here, but now I want to make an open request to Microsoft to see the "My" classes sooner than later. As I understand it the "My" classes include a set of VB 2005 IDE features but are otherwise …
Very Cool Site: ConnectionStrings.com
I just found a very cool site called ConnectionStrings.com (I found it on the .Text Basic Configuration web page.) This site provides examples of connection strings for all of the following including subsets of each: SQL Server Access Oracle MySQL Interbase IBM DB2 Sybase Informix Mimer SQL PostgreSQL DSN Excel Text DBF/FoxPro Visual FoxPro Pervasive UDL …
Cool Component: LaMarvin Dynamic AutoComplete Tool
For the month of May I’ve signed up a vendor new to Xtras.Net named LaMarvin, and we are offering their Dynamic AutoComplete Tool for FREE this month to XDN Professional members ($99/year.) This component adds auto-complete functionality to WinForm Text Boxes and Combo Boxes just like the auto-complete you get in Internet Explorer’s Address (URL) …
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FREE VB.NET 2003 Standard Edition
Paul Vick posted about VB @ The Movies. Check it out as Microsoft is giving away a free not-for-resale copy of Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition to anyone in the USA or Canada who views and rates five of their movies. This is very, very cool. Pass it on to anyone you’d like to get started …
Features I REALLY want in TSQL, Part #2
This next feature isn’t exactly a TSQL feature, and it is not highly visionary, but after spending literally the past eight (8) hours (I kid you not) using SQL tools to manipulate data and evolve some table structures, I remembered it is something I really would like to see. What I’d like to see added …